Hampshire County Council

Bins, council tax and planning, and what the council covers

Hampshire County Council is the county council for Hampshire. It runs schools, roads, social care and libraries. Bins, council tax and planning are run by its 11 district councils. ONS places 39,934 postcodes in use in Hampshire, in 73 postcode districts across 6 postcode areas.

84% of homes and businesses in Hampshire can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 11,182 homes and businesses in Hampshire in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
11
Postcodes in use
39,934
Postcode districts
73
District councils
11

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Its website

Hampshire County Council

hants.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on Hampshire County Council's own website

Each link goes straight to the page on the council's own website for that task. We opened every one on 14 October 2026.

Roads and parking

Schools

Care, support and libraries

Councillors, voting and complaints

The pages are the ones GOV.UK lists for Hampshire County Council. If one has moved since, tell us.

What broadband can you get in Hampshire?

Across Hampshire, 84% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 72% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre72% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)84% can get it
Superfast (30 Mbit/s or more)98% can get it
Cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s)Under 1%

For one street, look up its postcode: each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

How many homes in Hampshire are at risk of flooding?

Across Hampshire, the Environment Agency puts 11,182 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 3,006 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 3,006 postcodes High: 7,850Medium: 3,332Low: 11,254Very low: 2,761

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them. It leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Surface water

In Hampshire the Environment Agency counts 14,065 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water, 12,046 at medium risk and 35,600 at low risk. Surface water is rain that cannot drain away fast enough.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Surface Water, properties at risk by local authority, version 2025-09, listed 18 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

District councils in Hampshire

Bins, council tax and planning are run by the district, borough or city council for each part of Hampshire.

Basingstoke and Deane council, postcodes in use:5,077East Hampshire council, postcodes in use:4,234Eastleigh council, postcodes in use:3,467Fareham council, postcodes in use:3,314Gosport council, postcodes in use:1,840Hart council, postcodes in use:2,973Havant council, postcodes in use:3,108New Forest council, postcodes in use:5,521Rushmoor council, postcodes in use:2,345Test Valley council, postcodes in use:3,842Winchester council, postcodes in use:4,213

Postcode districts with postcodes in Hampshire

Counted from the ONS Postcode Directory. A postcode district is drawn for sorting post, so many cross a council's edge.

Its postcode areas

BH postcode area: Bournemouth, postcodes in use here:1,547 of 15,253GU postcode area: Guildford, postcodes in use here:7,988 of 22,616PO postcode area: Portsmouth, postcodes in use here:9,036 of 24,513RG postcode area: Reading, postcodes in use here:5,879 of 23,816SO postcode area: Southampton, postcodes in use here:12,807 of 18,624SP postcode area: Salisbury, postcodes in use here:2,677 of 8,753

Beside each area: how many of its postcodes in use are in Hampshire.

Towns and villages

BasingstokeGosportFarnboroughWinchesterFarehamEastleighAndoverHavantFleetLocks HeathWaterloovilleAldershotChandler's FordHorndeanTottonLee-on-the-SolentHythe and Dibden PurlieuAltonLymingtonRomseyHedge EndPetersfieldSouth HaylingPortsmouth

The 24 with the most postcodes in Hampshire, of 95. Browse places A to Z.

Is an address in Hampshire?

A council's edge does not follow postcodes exactly. Check the postcode.

All councils, A to Z

What Hampshire covers: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. Its name, website and own pages: GOV.UK, Local authority services, downloaded 14 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0; every link opened on 14 October 2026. See all our data sources

Something wrong on this page? Report an error and we will check it against the source.